I have use E-sword like daily in XP for years, and thank God for it, but do not think i will install in Puppy, but TheWord Bible program is second to it. (http://www.theword.gr/) It only has a Windows version, but i have installed it using Wine in 2 other Linux distros and it runs fine with no other configuration needed, though it has lots of options in itself. I do use the compact install, and have no added many other modules to it. I like it that its Bible text comes with cross references, and i have been using it to make html N.T. Bible pages with commentary, using OpenOffice. (http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/New_Testament_TOC.html)

I am trying to install esword 9.51 on puppy lupu 5.11 I have downloaded and installed wine from quickpet (version 1.1.43). I got a message that gecko needed to be added and I followed the instructions on the wine wicki for installing it. I downloaded and installed the 2 dll's Jim1911 recommended to the directory /root/.wine "C:\\windows\\system32\". I also configured the two dll's he suggested in the wine config for native windows.

My problem is that now when I try to install the Esword setup .exe file nothing happens. I have tried telling it to open with wine but still no result.

I am running lupu 5.11 on a frugal install. I found a suggestion on the wine wiki that if a program fails to install with wine to try opening from terminal. I did that and got the following error message. Maybe it might explain why the install .exe file is not running. Here it is.

I seem to have found a solution to my problem of the e-Sword install file not installing. Rather than assigning the riched20.dll and oleaut32.dll to "native windows" in the wine config window I assigned them as "native, builtin). Then I tried again to install and it did without any problems. I am thankfully running e-sword now on my lucid puppy 5.11 frugal install and it is running fairly well. Everything seems to work although sometimes a bit jerky.

Rick Meyers has posted another update to e-Sword, the latest is setup972.exe. It installs fine over an existing installation of version 9.6, but to be safe, always make a backup copy of root/.wine before updating.

Rick Meyers wrote:

e-Sword version 9.7 changes from 9.6

The editors have been broken out into their own view and are no longer located in the Commentary view. Also, a new Journal Notes editor has been added to the Editor view to join the Study Notes and Topic Notes!

You can now Search the Bibles and other modules using Regular Expressions (REGEX). While a bit complicated for typical use, this functionality adds powerful searching capabilities when that might be needed.

These procedures have been tried and do work on Lighthouse, even for the latest e-Sword. The procedures on page 1 are up-to-date, but must be followed exactly. I have placed a eSword.pet there that provides the icon, code for /usr/bin and /usr/share/applications that should work for anyone.

In Lighthouse, the code installed by my eSword.pet needs to be edited since Tazoc's installer sets up a seperate root/.wine_Esword directory, while my procedures uses the existing root/.wine. If you try these manual procedures, it probably would be easier to just delete or rename the root/.wine_Esword directory and start over.

If you have successfully installed e-Sword using another OS, you could just delete or rename both .wine and .wine_Esword in Lighthouse and copy your successful .wine into root. Then install the eSword.pet on page 1, find and click on the desktop file.

TazOC's installer does work, however, presently his installer needs update due to name changes that Rick Meyers made to e-Sword.

I continue to come back to this thread again and again. I did a frugal re-install of 5.1.1 last week and lost more than I intended - oops. But, because of your instructions, I had made a back up of the .wine file, so now I have e-Sword up and running once again.

Thanks for your great work and updates to this thread.

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bones01,
Thanks for the kind words. I hope that this thread benefits anyone who likes e-sword. It used to be very frustrating to use bible programs with puppy. About the only thing that was available was outdated pups using the old java Bible Desktop. Now, thanks to TazOC, playdayz, and 01micko, other fine programs such as this one can run on the later pups, along with Bibletime and Ziphos. Now it's possible for anyone to set up their own Bible study pup.

There is a new e-Sword update, e-Sword v9.8.2 application installation. Unfortunately, Rick has changed his site and now the only way to download modules is by using a new Module Downloader that is a main feature of the latest 9.8 version. See attachment.

The Module Downloader is a great feature for Windows users because it shows what you have installed and enables downloads, but it does not work under Linux.

The good news is that you can update to e-Sword v9.8.2 by downloading setup982.exe with your browser and click on it. Except for the downloading feature, it works great.

I have asked Rick to restore browser access to the download area as it was prior to 9.8 so that Linux users can still get new modules and updates.

There is a new e-Sword update, e-Sword v9.8.2 application installation. Unfortunately, Rick has changed his site and now the only way to download modules is by using a new Module Downloader that is a main feature of the latest 9.8 version. See attachment.

The Module Downloader is a great feature for Windows users because it shows what you have installed and enables downloads, but it does not work under Linux.

The good news is that you can update to e-Sword v9.8.2 by downloading setup982.exe with your browser and click on it. Except for the downloading feature, it works great.

I have asked Rick to restore browser access to the download area as it was prior to 9.8 so that Linux users can still get new modules and updates.

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